CVE-2021-39202
Published: 09 September 2021
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. In affected versions the widgets editor introduced in WordPress 5.8 beta 1 has improper handling of HTML input in the Custom HTML feature. This leads to stored XSS in the custom HTML widget. This has been patched in WordPress 5.8. It was only present during the testing/beta phase of WordPress 5.8.
Priority
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 5.4
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
wordpress Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Not vulnerable
(debian: Vulnerable code introduced later)
|
| Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) |
Needs triage
|
|
| Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) |
Needs triage
|
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Needs triage
|
|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Needs triage
|
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Ignored
(out of standard support)
|
|
| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
|